[nmh]

“NASA researchers improperly manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as “THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD.”

HOW did NASA get politicized?

Al Gore's playmate there? Hensen?

[delacoert]

HOW did NASA get politicized?

Your kidding, right?

For Politicization of NASA see Politicization of Science.

[The Antiyuppie]

“HOW did NASA get politicized?”

And if that’s not enough for you, check out http://www.noaa.gov. Their forcasts are pretty good, though, which was their mission before some leftward-leaning “mission creep” set in.

[1010RD]

HOW did NASA get politicized?

Nature of the beast. Follow the money. NASA burns up $17 billion a year.

End it and set up $17 billion in tax breaks for private development of space travel, space flight, et al.